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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 14

Then he had to go all the way back again, and at the very top, where he stopped to rest, the barking was directly beneath him, and he knew in an instant where he was and what had happened.

Who acts: dog, barking · What happens: have, go, stop, rest, be, know · To what, where: way, instant, dog

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, barking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

advmodnsubjmarkxcompdet:predetdetobl:unmarkedadvmodadvmodpunctcccasedetadvmodparataxispunctadvmodnsubjconjmarkxcomppunctdetnsubjcopadvmodcaseoblpunctccnsubjparataxiscasedetobladvmodnsubjaux:passccnsubjauxacl:relclpunctrootThenADVhePRONhadVERBtoPARTgoVERBallDETtheDETwayNOUNbackADVagainADV,PUNCTandCCONJatADPtheDETveryADVtopADJ,PUNCTwhereADVhePRONstoppedVERBtoPARTrestVERB,PUNCTtheDETbarkingNOUNwasAUXdirectlyADVbeneathADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONknewVERBinADPanDETinstantNOUNwhereADVhePRONwasAUXandCCONJwhatPRONhadAUXhappenedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 hadadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 hadnsubj
3hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoPART_5 gomark
5gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf3 hadxcomp
6allallDETPronType=Tot8 waydet:predet
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 waydet
8waywayNOUNNumber=Sing5 goobl:unmarked
9backbackADV_5 goadvmod
10againagainADV_5 goadvmod
11,,PUNCT_16 toppunct
12andandCCONJ_16 topcc
13atatADP_16 topcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 topdet
15veryveryADV_16 topadvmod
16toptopADJDegree=Pos3 hadparataxis
17,,PUNCT_20 stoppedpunct
18wherewhereADVPronType=Rel20 stoppedadvmod
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 stoppednsubj
20stoppedstopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 topconj
21totoPART_22 restmark
22restrestVERBVerbForm=Inf20 stoppedxcomp
23,,PUNCT_29 himpunct
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 barkingdet
25barkingbarkingNOUNNumber=Sing29 himnsubj
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 himcop
27directlydirectlyADV_29 himadvmod
28beneathbeneathADP_29 himcase
29himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 restobl
30,,PUNCT_33 knewpunct
31andandCCONJ_33 knewcc
32hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 knewnsubj
33knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 hadparataxis
34ininADP_36 instantcase
35anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 instantdet
36instantinstantNOUNNumber=Sing33 knewobl
37wherewhereADVPronType=Rel43 happenedadvmod
38hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs43 happenednsubj
39wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin43 happenedaux:pass
40andandCCONJ_43 happenedcc
41whatwhatPRONPronType=Int43 happenednsubj
42hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin43 happenedaux
43happenedhappenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass36 instantacl:relcl
44..PUNCT_3 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastdogthentree rules
2goto-infinitivedog not said hereall wayagainvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3stoppastdogvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4restto-infinitivedog not said herevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5ispastthe barkingbeneath dog; directly propertytree rules
6knowpastdoga instantvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7happenpast · perfect · passivedogtree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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